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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.


There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years wide…

In the year 1054 a star exploded so brightly that Chinese astronomers recorded it…

Astronomers have found a cloud of water vapour around a distant quasar holding…

The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the first direct measurement of a…

In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the…

Thought of the day by Albert Einstein: "The most incomprehensible thing about the…

Neptune was found not by anyone scanning the night sky but by mathematics

When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so…

Scientists tracked 8,000 supermassive black holes across the universe and found most…

When a young astronomer found a signal pulsing with impossible regularity in 1967, the…
